Kristallnacht?
I know, I know. Godwin’s Law means I am probably disqualified from being taken seriously. But honestly. With the National Assembly ready to give Chávez powers to rule...
Juan Cristobal Nagel
Teaches Economics at Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. Former editor of Caracas Chronicles.
Foreign chavista apologists: temblad!
In the text of the new, about-to-be-approved Law on International Cooperation (aka the NGO Muzzle Law), there is this little doozy: “Representatives of NGOs with political objectives, of...
Economic brutality
Hugo Chávez announced yesterday that he was raising taxes … in the middle of a recession. In announcing a rise in the Value-Added Tax, which hits consumers directly,...
The vanishing mirage
A few years ago, chavista apologists boasted about Venezuela’s vertiginous growth rates, bragging them about as Exhibit #1 when vouching for the success of chavenomics. Those days are...
Enabling Law: Ud. lo vio por Caracas Chronicles
Chavez just announced it. Lame-duck shmame-duck. An Enabling Law (Ley Habilitante, in Spanish) would give Chávez special powers to rule by decree for a fixed period of time, effectively...
Musical chairs
Yesterday, Hugo Chávez appointed socialist hyena Andrés Izarra as Minister of Information. He replaces Mauricio Rodríguez, appointed Minister in June. He replaced VTV opinionator Tania Díaz, who had been...
Losing Parapara
Lost in the news of the torrential rains soaking our country, some Venezuelans went to the polls yesterday in a Special Election to elect two of the country’s...
Assange channels Marialejandra López
El País has published its report on the latest batch of Wikileaks, a significant bunch dealing with Venezuela. From a cursory read of the contents of the cables,...
Dear Tucker Carlson: arepas are not pancakes
The headline in the conservative blog The Daily Caller? “We could eat socialist arepas together…” In case you’re wondering about this, on his trip back from a NATO...
Readers who write
Just a quick shout-out to two books from long-time readers of this blog. Vicente Ulive-Schnell is the author of “Yo maté a Simón Bolívar.” I haven’t read it, but...
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